Biotch of the Week: Serena Williams

Welcome to my new feature, Biotch of the Week.  Does this mean I will actually commit to posting on a weekly basis?  Er, I'm gonna go with no.  But there's at least one biotch that I would like to recognize this week, so I'm going for it.

Articles like this one about Serena Williams's "outburst" at the U.S. Open make me want to vomit.  Granted, this incident follows one that was a bit more severe in 2009, but biotch PLEEZ!  Watch the video.  The woman got screwed on a technicality in a very high-stakes game for her.  While on air, she contained herself quite well, asking the chair lady for an explanation and just getting a little pissy when said ridiculous explanation was given.  Even the announcers were completely stunned by the call, so how can the person who is so negatively impacted by it NOT be upset?



The "bad" part came when she told the preppy sweater lady in the lifeguard chair not to look at her and to walk the other way if they walk down the same hallway.  Followed by my favorite line of, "You are just unattractive INSIDE."  Oh no she di-in't!!!  This woman should be featured in an Orbitz commercial, not be stamped as a horrible influence on today's youth.

Not only that, but let's talk about the fact that all of this happened during a commercial break, quietly on the sideline (it's still called that in tennis, right?).  The network is more to blame here for intentionally airing the clip after the fact to create drama, make Serena look bad, and boost their own ratings, thereby exposing all those poor traumatized kids in the audience to this behavior.  Until they did that, it was just a pissed off athlete quietly talking some shit after getting totally screwed over.  Yeah, totally unprecedented.

But I guess in a sport where women who are among the best athletes in the world are still expected to wear skirts while playing and the audience is not permitted to make noise, this is quite scandalous.  However, let's not go labeling a woman (let alone a black woman in tennis) who has helped put women's sports on the map as a bad role model.  Especially when we can focus on all of the male athletes out there with multiple babymamas who are constantly cheating on their wives with hookers, beating up women and dogs, and acting inappropriately with reporters.  (But that's just "boys being boys", right?)  Serena is the least of our worries when it comes to role models in sports.  We should be thankful for her.

So, Serena Williams, for being a normal human being who gets pissed off when screwed over and actually keeping your composure quite well (compared to how I would have reacted), the Sports Biotch bestows upon you the honor of Biotch of the Week.

Oh, and also, you have an AMAZING ass.